Solomon Van Rensselaer

Solomon Van Rensselaer

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Solomon van Vechten van Rensselaer (August 9, 1774 – April 23, 1852) was a United States Representative from the state of New York, a lieutenant colonel during the War of 1812, and postmaster of Albany.

Biography

He was the son of General Henry K. van Rensselaer, who distinguished himself during the Revolutionary War's Battle of Fort Anne, and Alida Bratt, who named her son after her grandfather Solomon Van Vechten.^[1]

Solomon van Rensselaer was born in East Greenbush, New York, where he completed preparatory studies. He appointed as a cornet United States Army in 1792, was promoted to captain in July 1793, and then to major in January 1799, before being honorably discharged in June 1800. He was an adjutant general of New York in 1801, 1810, and 1813; and served in the War of 1812 as a lieutenant colonel of New York State Militia.

He was elected as a Federalist to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth United States Congresses, and served from March 4, 1819 to January 14, 1822, when he resigned. He was postmaster of Albany, New York from 1822 to 1839, and from 1841 to 1843 and a delegate from New York at the opening of the Erie Canal on November 4, 1825.

He died near Albany, aged 77. He was interred in the North Dutch Church Cemetery, in Albany, and reinterred in Albany Rural Cemetery. His home at Albany, Cherry Hill, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.^[2]

Notes

↑ Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, Part 6, p. 25; Catharina Van Rensselaer Bonney, Legacy of Historical Gleanings (J. Munsell, Albany, N.Y., 1875), pp. 10, 91. He has erroneously been called the son of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer.
↑ Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.

References

Solomon Van Rensselaer at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2008-03-21

External links

Barbagallo, Tricia (March 10, 2007). "Fellow Citizens Read a Horrid Tale" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-06-04.
"Solomon Van Rensselaer". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2008-03-21.
Isa Carrington Cabell (1889). "Van Rensselaer, Killian". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography.

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Rensselaer Westerlo	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 9th congressional district 1819–1822	Succeeded by Stephen Van Rensselaer

Van Rensselaer family

This list is not complete, and should be taken as a rough guideline depending on the notability of a respective family member.

1st generation	Hendrick Wolter van Rensselaer

2nd generation	Issue of Hendrick Wolter Kiliaen van Rensselaer

3rd generation	Issue of Kiliaen Hendrick van Rensselaer Johan van Rensselaer

4th generation	Issue of Hendrick Kilian van Rensselaer^† Maria (van Rensselaer) van Twiller

5th generation	Issue of Kilian Johan van Rensselaer^† Jan Baptist van Rensselaer^† Jeremias van Rensselaer^† Nicholas van Rensselaer (minister)^†

6th generation	Issue of Johan Kiliaen van Rensselaer^† Issue of Jeremias Johannes (John) Van Rensselaer Kilian van Rensselaer^† Hendrick van Rensselaer^†

7th generation	Issue of Kilian Jeremias van Rensselaer^† Stephen van Rensselaer I^†

8th generation	Issue of Stephen I Stephen van Rensselaer II^†

9th generation	Issue of Stephen II Stephen van Rensselaer III^†

10th generation	Issue of Stephen III Stephen van Rensselaer IV Henry van Rensselaer

^†Served as patroon or director of Rensselaerswyck

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 6671313 LCCN: n97006094 US Congress: V000055

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